Re: on formally indescribable merde

From: George Levy <GLevy.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 12:50:28 -0700

Hi Stephen,

I should be the one apologizing for the dealy.... I got the paper...
please give me time to read
it thoroughly.

I am currently reading a great book by David Wicke "The Infamous
Boundary, Seven Decades of
Heresy in Quantum Physics." I recommend it to anyone interested in the
multiworld, even though
the author himself does not subscribe to this idea. He presents a very
clear explanation of
Bell's Inequality. He also discusses the Quantum Zeno effect.. a quantum
pot never boils if you
are watching it.... I thought of extending the same principle to the
world we live in...It
doesn't disintegrate into elementary particles precisely because we are
watching it.

George

Stephen Paul King wrote:

> Dear George,
>
> I apologize for the delay. ;-) There is a program available for
WinX systems that views
> postscript. You can download it from here:
>
> http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
>
> Kindest regards,
>
> Stephen
>
> George Levy wrote:
>
> > Stephen Paul King wrote:[SPK]
> >
> > > It is trivial to show that TM's can not give rise to
consciousness for the simple
> > > reason that consciousness is not "pre-specifiable" in its
behaviour. Have you read
> > > Peter Wegner's papers about this?
> >
> > and from a previous post:
> > [SPK]
> >
> > > I agree. But could you get into detail on the nature of "allowed"?

> > > What is the constraint? (I think that all that is needed is the
weak anthropic principle
> >
> > > but I could be missing something.) I think that we should
consider the rule
> > > "All is allowed that is not Forbidden" (by logical contradiction)
instead of the usual
> > notion
> > > " All is forbidden that is not allowed" (by prespecification, e.g.
a priori algorithms)
> > > Peter Wegner has done a lot of research on this issue:
> >
> > > http://www.cs.brown.edu/~pw/papers/math1.ps
> >
> > I can't read his paper because my software doesn't accept PS File
format... I have Adobe
> > but this doesn't seem to help... Do you have any suggestions?
> >
> > George
Received on Sun Apr 08 2001 - 12:57:13 PDT

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